General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination June 2014 English Literature (Specification A) LTA1C Unit 1 Option C: Texts in Context The Struggle f Identity in Modern Literature Friday 16 May 2014 9.00 am to 11.00 am F this paper you must have: an AQA 12-page answer book. A Time allowed 2 hours Instructions Use black ink black ball-point pen. Write the infmation required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is LTA1C. Answer two questions. You must answer: the compulsy question in Section A: Contextual Linking one question from Section B: Poetry. Do all rough wk in your answer book. Cross through any wk that you do not want to be marked. Infmation The marks f questions are shown in brackets. The maximum mark f this paper is 90. The poetry texts prescribed f this paper may be taken into the examination room. Texts taken into the examination must be clean: that is, free from annotation. You will be marked on your ability to: use good English ganise infmation clearly use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. Advice You are advised to spend about 1 hour on each question. H/TC/101069/Jun14/E3 LTA1C
2 Section A: Contextual Linking Answer Question 1. In your response to this section of the paper you must refer to your wider reading across all three genres (prose, poetry and drama). You may also refer to your AS coursewk texts. Question 1 0 1 Read the following extract carefully. It is taken from the diary of a young girl, Mary Berg, published in the USA in 1945. Mary wrote her diary while living in the Warsaw Ghetto where she, her family and thousands of Jews were imprisoned by the Nazi fces occupying Poland. Mary s mother was American, which allowed the family to be exchanged f German prisoners and eventually to make their way to America in March 1944. How does the writer present her thoughts and feelings about the struggle f identity? How far is the extract similar to and different from your wider reading about the struggle f identity in modern literature? You should consider the writers choices of fm, structure and language. August, 1942 Behind the Pawiak gate we are experiencing all the terr that is abroad in the ghetto. F the last few nights we have been unable to sleep. The noise of the shooting, the cries of despair, are driving us crazy. I have to summon all my strength to write these notes. I have lost count of the days, and I do not know what day it is. But what does it matter? We are here as on a little island amidst an ocean of blood. The whole ghetto is drowning in blood. We literally see fresh human blood, we can smell it. Does the outside wld know anything about it? Why does no one come to our aid? I cannot go on living; my strength is exhausted. How long are we going to be kept here to witness all this? A few days ago, a group of neutrals was taken out of the Pawiak. Apparently the Germans were unable to use them f exchange. I saw from my window several trucks filled with people, and I tried to distinguish familiar faces among them. Some time later, the prison guard came panting to us, and told us that the Jewish citizens of neutral European countries had just been taken to the Umschlagplatz to be depted. So our turn may come soon, too. I hope it will be very soon. This waiting is wse than death. Dr. Janusz Kczak s children s home is empty now. A few days ago we all stood at the window and watched the Germans surround the houses. Rows of children, holding each other by their little hands, began to walk out of the doway. There were tiny tots of two three years among them, while the oldest ones were perhaps thirteen. Each child carried a little bundle in his hand. All of them we white aprons. They walked in ranks of two, calm, and even smiling. They had not the slightest feboding of their fate. At the end
3 of the procession marched Dr. Kczak, who saw to it that the children did not walk on the sidewalk. Now and then, with fatherly solicitude, he stroked a child on the head arm, and straightened out the ranks. He we high boots, with his trousers stuck in them, an alpaca coat, and a navy-blue cap, the so-called Maciejowka cap. He walked with a firm step, and was accompanied by one of the docts of the children s home, who we his white smock. This sad procession vanished at the cner of Dzielna and Smocza Streets. They went in the direction of Gesia Street, to the cemetery. At the cemetery all the children were shot. We were also told by our infmants that Dr. Kczak was fced to witness the executions, and that he himself was shot afterward. Thus died one of the purest and noblest men who ever lived. He was the pride of the ghetto. His children s home gave us courage, and all of us gladly gave part of our own scanty means to suppt the model home ganized by this great idealist. He devoted all his life, all his creative wk as an educat and writer, to the po children of Warsaw. Even at the last moment he refused to be separated from them. The house is empty now, except f the guards who are still cleaning up the rooms of the murdered children. Turn over f Section B Turn over U
4 Section B: Poetry Answer one question from this section. In your response to this section of the paper you should consider the fm, structure and language of the poems you choose to write about, as well as their subject matter. Either And Still I Rise Maya Angelou Question 2 0 2 Angelou said, Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clear. Question 3 To what extent is anger shown to be a positive emotion in And Still I Rise? In your answer you should either refer to two three poems in detail range me widely through the whole selection. 0 3 Remind yourself of Momma Welfare Roll. How far does the presentation of the woman in this poem reflect the depiction of women elsewhere in the selection? Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy Question 4 0 4 A critic has said of Feminine Gospels that it is all sound and fury that deafens rather than delights. Question 5 How far do you agree with this view of Feminine Gospels? In your answer you should either refer to two three poems in detail range me widely through the whole selection. 0 5 Remind yourself of the poem Sub. To what extent do you feel this poem would be a suitable introduction to the collection?
5 Skirrid Hill Owen Sheers Question 6 0 6 The main divide separation in the collection is that shown between male and female. Question 7 How far do you agree with this view of Skirrid Hill? In your answer you should either refer to two three poems in detail range me widely through the whole selection. 0 7 Remind yourself of the poem Bder Country. To what extent do you feel this poem would provide a suitable introduction to the collection? END OF QUESTIONS
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8 There are no questions printed on this page Acknowledgement of copyright-holders and publishers Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied f. In some cases, effts to contact copyright-holders have been unsuccessful and AQA will be happy to rectify any omissions of acknowledgements in future papers if notified. Extract: Diary entry by Mary Berg. Taken from Children in the Holocaust and Wld War II Their Secret Diaries, by Laurel Holliday. Published by Washington Square Press, 1995. Copyright 2014 AQA and its licenss. All rights reserved.